Aviation Appreciation Station

[Bigtime]

An SSP forumer found video of the two Antonov 124 visit in 1991 just after Desert Storm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGCptBfHHDI

Can't embed this video.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by SirPsychoSexy

Here are a few more pictures of our Russian guests.

Great pics, but to be picky we should call them our Ukrainian guests. As Antonov is a Ukrainian company.

However the Volga-Dnepr bird has a Russian registration (RA-82045), and the Antonov Design Bureau bird is a Ukrainian reg (UR-82009).

[chummer]

We took the firetrucks over last night to see the Antonovs.

Both planes going to Chad with drilling equipment.
They said it was the first time Calgary had 2 Antonovs at the same time.

[Bigtime]

Well they were wrong about the first time thing, as my video above shows (and my memory of that visit).

Seriously, if Calgary can have a resident historian I think I should be the go to Avgeek.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Acey

http://www.planespottinginternationa...ing_Guide.html

This guide breaks it down pretty well. I really haven't had a lot of time to spend at the field since the runway opened so I can't really give a verdict on any of the spots.

Spoiler!

Thanks. I will check out that #11 location some time.

[chummer]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Well they were wrong about the first time thing, as my video above shows (and my memory of that visit).

Seriously, if Calgary can have a resident historian I think I should be the go to Avgeek.

Yeah it's just what one of the crew members said,I'll take your word for it.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

24 Stewardesses from the first 24 airlines to order the 747 in 1969...AC is amongst them...

<insert joke about grandma AC flight attendants here>

[speede5]

RIP to all those defunct airlines.

[Byrns]

Originally Posted by speede5

RIP to all those defunct airlines.

I wonder what percentage of those are defunct or went bankrupt at least once.

[Madman]

2014 Hornet Ball.

The Hornet Ball is an annual event consisting of all the West coast Naval F-18 Hornet and Super Hornet squadrons, their pilots and guests. Each year's ball features a video compiled from the squadrons' year of flying in both combat and training missions.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=745_1414095037

[Bigtime]

Before I click that link, is the music "Sail'?

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Before I click that link, is the music "Sail'?

Self quoting myself, but now petitioning to make the "go to" aviation video music 'Dayvan Cowboy' by Boards of Canada:

[dutch14]

[QUOTE=Bigtime;4976431]Self quoting myself, but now petitioning to make the "go to" aviation video music 'Dayvan Cowboy' by Boards of Canada:

Agree wholeheartedly with you. Love 'Dayvan Cowboy' from Boards of Canada.

[Titan]

[Acey]

These legends ceased operations a few weeks before I was born... and now they're back.



Now we just need to get Continental and Northwest and we'll be all set.

[STeeLy]

Pan Am?

How about the old Canadian Airlines?

[InSutterWeTrust]

Yesterday driving into work noticed a Antonov 124 parked on the North side of the airport near a cargo company. Was gone when I was leaving work.

[Bigtime]

Yup, it loaded up 3 British military Lynx helicopters and left for RAF Brize-Norton around 8pm last night.

[rotten42]

Originally Posted by STeeLy

Pan Am?

How about the old Canadian Airlines?

Wardair ftw

[Byrns]